LOST finale blows my mind!
If you’re like me, you were super psyched about the 2-hour season finale of LOST. I watched it with Zack and my friends Jared and Carrie. I was planning on taking notes on the episode but I was afraid it would hinder my understanding and enjoyment of it so I asked Carrie if she would take notes for me. She was more than willing to and ended up with 6 pages!
The following is a summary of her notes with commentary. If you don’t want to be spoiled on the LOST finale, please stop reading here. Throughout the summary there will be questions which you should feel free to give your 2 cents on by commenting below.
Previously on LOST…
—The coffin: Last season ended with a mysterious coffin whose occupant was unknown to us. The producers said we would learn the occupant’s identity this season… and we certainly do. Who did you think would be in the coffin? I at first thought it would be Michael but as this season progressed I became less and less sure. I really had no idea who it would be as the finale aired. They say it’s someone name Jeremy Bentham but we have never met a character by that name. Of course we have to wait until the very last second to actually see that it is John Locke in the coffin. Carrie says she called it a long time ago. How did Locke die? How did he get back to the mainland? Why did the Island let him die?
—The boat and the explosives: A little too convenient that Desmond has knowledge in explosives but as Carrie put it “it makes sense plot-wise.” I knew as soon as we were shown the room with explosives in the last episode that it was triggered to the life of the lead commando guy, Martin Keamy. The whole freezing the battery linked to the explosives to keep it from going off didn’t make a lot of sense to us, but none of us are qualified experts. When the bomb explodes it seems obvious that Michael died with it, but Jin’s death doesn’t seem as concrete. He could have easily been thrown off the boat into the water as survived. Do you think he survived? Did anyone else on the boat survive?
—The Oceanic 6: We know who all six of them are but when the finale airs they are all split up into pairs and it’s hard to imagine them ending up in the same place. They all eventually do end up together, of course, with the addition of Frank Lapidus, Desmond Hume and Sawyer. Sawyer jumps out of the helicopter to lighten the load since it was low on fuel but whispers something to Kate before he does. What do you think he whispered to Kate? Until we discovered that it was Penny’s boat (this time) we couldn’t figure out how Frank and Desmond fit in with the survival story of the Oceanic Six. The producers have said that this season would be about them getting off the Island and it was. They say the next season would be about the Six trying to get back to the Island. They say the last season would be about what happens when they return to the Island.
—The Orchid Dharma Initiative Station: The producers of the show released part of the orientation video for this station during the San Diego Comic Convention last year. Taken out of context, it made little sense, but you still got the impression that it was important to this season. Looking at it now you can tell that it was a blooper real of sorts for the actual orientation video you see half in the finale. The Orchid can teleport objects through time and space which explains Ben’s appearance in the Sahara desert wearing a parka in the future. We actually don’t get to see the Orchid in action. Instead, Ben uses it incorrectly to bust down a wall to gain access to a cave which allows him to move the Island. How does it work? We’ll probably never know.
—Lock and The Others: The Others free Ben from his captors but they only did it so Ben can move the Island. Who ever moves the Island, though, has to leave the Island to never return. With Ben gone, Locke becomes the leader of The Others. Will we see what happens on Island next season through Locke’s eyes as the leader of The Others? Or will it all be off Island through the eyes of the Oceanic Six?
So, did you enjoy the season 4 finale of LOST? What other events and answers are you looking forward to in the final 2 seasons? Do you think Locke, Jin or Michael are actually dead? Don’t you find it rediculous that the Island disappeared right in front of Jack’s eyes but he still didn’t believe it had actually disappeared?
I realized I left a lot out, but feel free to ponder any questions I didn’t ask.
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